Chapter 180: Do You Like the Gift I Gave You

This is a plant sanctuary, dense with vegetation and with a more complex terrain.The place indicated by the detector is even deeper inside.

"Be careful," Puslin warned the person behind him, taking out a bottle of medicine and letting the unconscious person sniff it.

The unconscious person slowly came to.

"Major General Puslin..." He gathered his senses, looking around, "Where’s the Family Head?"

He seemed a bit panicked!

"Blanwen is not here," Puslin quickly asked, "What happened?"

"Mr. Lai was driving back to the Yu Family and saw Esie on the road."

Lai followed Esie over.

And Blanwen closely followed behind.

Upon arriving here, Esie got out of the car and ran into the dense forest.

"He found us and asked Mr. Lai to go in alone."

Lai complied, although they didn’t get too close, they didn’t leave either.

There are traps nearby, and they unknowingly fainted.

As for why Blanwen wasn’t here, they didn’t know either.

Puslin, listening, guessed why Blanwen probably didn’t faint like them.

Lately, Blanwen’s relationship with his wife had improved a lot, and with the Rest Pod situation, they came and went more frequently.

Every time Blanwen came over, he would bring gifts for Yu Manman.

Yu Manman, feeling a bit embarrassed after receiving the gifts, gave him a gift in return.

An antidote pill.

Puslin had seen with his own eyes how Yu Manman tossed a pill into the water and handed it to Blanwen.

They had all taken such antidote pills before.

Yu Manman said that danger around Blanwen was frequent; he had almost been poisoned by his father before, so he drank medicine mixed with the antidote pill. From then on, he developed immunity to poisons and wouldn’t need to worry anymore.

Even if the poison was too strong to be completely eradicated by the universal antidote pill, it could at least alleviate it.

Perhaps this was why Blanwen wasn’t knocked out.

"Song Chen, Guan Heng, the three of us will go in. The rest of you wait here. If we need you, we will send out a signal."

No one knew if there would still be toxic gas inside; only the three of them had the immunity to poison, making them the best candidates to go in first.

"Let’s go!" Song Chen immediately followed.

The surrounding environment was complex, but they followed the guidance of the detector and went deeper into the woods.

Song Chen’s nostrils flared slightly, "There’s a scent of blood..."

"Hurry!"

Approaching the area with the scent of blood, they immediately saw a few people not far away.

Two people lay dead with contorted faces, their faces bearing beast-like markings.

This appearance was somewhat like the berserk Beastmen Puslin saw today, but even more vicious.

And among the others were Esie, Blanwen, and Lai!

Trembling, Lai held Esie’s shoulder and smashed a rock onto his head!

Blood spewed from his mouth, his eyes glowed with a feral and ruthless light, as if everything in his path were his prey, which sent chills to anyone under his gaze, transforming him into a released beast.

"Thunk." The rock fell from Lai’s hand, and he faintly smiled, "You’ve arrived?"

"It’s over now..."

Puslin frowned, "What’s wrong with you?"

Lai didn’t seem alright.

"Oh, it’s nothing," Lai said, his hand trembling, "just... got hit with some unknown drug."

A drug that drove one mad.

He turned his gaze toward the needle on the ground and bent down to pick it up.

A rough and hoarse voice came from Lai’s throat, "Don’t worry about me, I’m fine..."

At least, he could still manage to hold on.

And he hasn’t lost all his senses.

Esie injected himself with the needle, giving in to the madness to become one of his kind; truthfully, he almost became what Esie envisioned.

"You should check on Blanwen first, his injuries are more severe," Lai directed his gaze to Blanwen, lying on the other side.

He was covered in blood, badly injured.

If not for the slight rise and fall of Blanwen’s chest, they might have thought he was dead.

But Esie was certainly dead.

And died quite miserably, his eyes wide open, seemingly not content even in death.

Lai wiped the red blood from the corner of his mouth off with the back of his hand. In his thoughts, Esie indeed wasn’t content.

"If you didn’t come with me, the events outside Lu’an Primary School today would keep repeating!"

"Today was just a small taste, in the future beware of those berserk Beastmen, they might become contagious..."

"I actually wanted to see what it would be like with every surrounding being a Fallen Species! Who knows, one day your wife might turn into something like a Fallen Species!"

Females have the ability to purify the Spiritual Sea, but that doesn’t mean they can’t become Fallen Species. Esie’s drug could instantly transform a Beastman into something like a Fallen Species.

This matter, in some ways, was linked to him as well, so he had to be responsible.

Lai had those he cared for; he thought of his wife, thought of Manman.

Manman was still just a child; she should grow up safely...

Once they arrived here, Esie had suddenly turned the needle on the two people beside him, pushing them in front of Lai...

The two Beastmen roared, their veins bulging, muscles growing more robust, veins wriggling like worms on their skin, their blood-red eyes charging towards him.

Esie was a madman, watching Lai fighting two completely irrational Beastmen.

"Lai, you shouldn’t have been so gullible," Esie mocked him, his eyes revealing a look of frustration, "How could you be so stupid? You shouldn’t have weaknesses! Otherwise how would you fall into my trap so easily!"

"If only you were callous, you wouldn’t have walked into my trap!"

Esie’s face twisted slightly.

He felt incredibly conflicted.

He wanted Lai to fall into his trap and wanted to take revenge on him, but also wished Lai would ignore it all—as if proving Lai was just like him!

So even if he died, it wouldn’t be a loss!

"I took this from the secret chamber, the old man at home tried to create controllable monsters, but the experiment is only halfway done! There’s no antidote, and even I can’t stop them! But... it’s not contagious!"

Esie laughed maniacally, "They can’t feel pain anymore; the more bloodthirsty, the more excited they become! If you don’t kill them, they’ll tear you apart!"

"How do you like the gift I gave you?"

As for whether it would backfire on himself, he couldn’t care less.

Whether he lived or not, what did it matter?

He wanted to live his life with some excitement!

He only wanted to watch Lai get torn apart! To die tragically right in front of him!

But he never expected Blanwen, who was supposed to be unconscious, to show up.